Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to ensure that regular dental checks are carried out on children in school.

There are no plans to introduce regular dental checks on children in school. The United Kingdom National Screening Committee advised in 2006 that population screening for dental disease in children aged six to nine years should be discontinued as it was ineffective; a review in 2013 upheld this recommendation.

NHS England commissions National Health Service dental services and free NHS dental treatment is available for children under 18 and under 19 in full time education.